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Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive
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- gruez 19d ago>The Economist, Silicon Valley's primary submarine, dispels the notion that AI causes unemployment because SV has realized that the peasants get unruly. ??? From a few months ago: https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20260516_DE_US.jpg https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20260516_DE_...
- AnimalMuppet 19d agoI suspect "submarine" was meant in this sense: https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html Note well: This does not mean that I agree with any part of what he said. Just explaining the term.
- lioeters 19d agoEvery single aspect of that cover is manipulative marketing.
- gruez 19d agoRight, but OP's implication is that they're trying to placate the masses (that somehow read the economist?), even though a few months before they were putting out alarmist covers. You can't have it both ways. If you're arguing that economist being pro-job loss is part of a globalist conspiracy and so is the economist being anti-job loss, then you just created an unfalsifiable statement, a "heads I win, tails you lose" argument.
- rent_a_shill 19d agoThat was when Silicon Valley still favored the job loss narrative to drive up CEO interest for AI. Now protests are getting louder and the midterms are close.
- Havoc 19d agoRemind me what percentage of the workforce works “AI jobs”?
- jatora 19d agoWell one way to look at it is: As a programmer, but working in two non-SWE roles, I have turned job A 70% over to AI, and job B 90%. Where systems and scaffolds can be put in place to manage various aspects of a job, would this not be considered, partially, an "AI job"? If you work in government grants and R&D, what if agents can now triage 100-1000x the opportunity count that you could ever handle alone, and you had a pipeline system in place to manage said opportunities and relationships? And then you, as the human, become the mouthpiece and reviewer of hoards of filtered output? Is that Federal Grants & R&D position now not mostly an AI job? I'd say a large percentage of digital-based jobs can be considered varying percentages of AI jobs.
- esafak 19d agoI think they mean jobs directly related to AI, not merely exercising AI to increase productivity: AI is also creating a new class of white-collar jobs. Engineers build the models, data annotators label their inputs and judge their answers, “forward-deployed” engineers adapt them for customers, and newly minted “heads of AI” decide what companies should do with the technology.
- georgeburdell 19d agoI can’t read the article but in my group, which is not terribly AI exposed due to its hands-on nature, we are in fact hiring extra people into next year to handle additional AI initiatives that I am confident will succeed. In subsequent years, the plan as I have heard it is to let headcount go down by attrition. I would not take extra hiring now as evidence that AI is preserving job numbers.
- Ifkaluva 19d agoThe article mostly cites the huge growth in blue-collar jobs caused by the data center buildout. It’s very handy-wavy about white collar jobs, “yes lots of jobs have been lost, but also the tech sector always has a lot of year-to-year churn, maybe this is just churn”. Not a super insightful article. The AI jobs apocalypse may or may not be real, but this article doesn’t provide any compelling evidence for its thesis.
- jryle70 19d agoIt's handy-wavy because nobody knows how it will turn out and which new jobs will be created. In the same way as every predictions about AI bust, job lost, moat (or lack of it) is. If you feel confident about your predictions, don't.
- dbolgheroni 19d agoWhat type of activities your group performs?
- R_D_Olivaw 18d agoThis is indeed HN, so comments are of course skewed to a particular upper echelon of knowledge work, but I'll ask anyways: When you say (and perhaps you might speculate across other businesses) "hiring extra people... To handle AI initiatives" does that mean you're hiring Very niche and specialized AI people to handle these initiatives? I'm curious because I have seen some versions of this sentiment on HN and it sort of feels like reading "at my company we're hiring more quantum physicists because of these initiatives". Basically, how much of the general populace is actually going to have a shot at nabbing a slice of this meager pie?
- jerojero 19d agoIf most of the jobs its creating are related to construction of infrastructure then that's not really positive news as these jobs are temporary, once demand settles then why kind of jobs are going to be created? It might be benefiting other areas, but I think as the technology improves a lot of those are going to start looking like what's happening in software development (which is arguably what the technology is best at right now). So yeah, idk.
- delichon 19d agoAI construction jobs are temporary up to Kardashev 3 or so.
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- alephnerd 19d agoMost of these jobs are the same jobs that arose thanks to the CHIPS and IRA. Much of the AI boom and trade is building on top of the capex that arose from the semiconductor/hardware portfolio during that era. Many of the current DCs being built out are also being powered or tied with renewable energy projects that were funded by the IRA, as many DC builders with deep pockets do know the political dimension. If this is what keeps the CHIPS, IRA, and the IIJA alive I'm happy. Every industry and career type goes through ebbs and flows. The 2010s was a white collar boom, and the 2020s is now a white collar bust. Meanwhile the 2010s was a skilled trades bust and the 2020s is now a skilled trades boom.
- konaraddi 19d agoPaywalled > On September 4th the Bureau of Labour Statistics reported that the American economy added 162,000 jobs in August, far above expectations. Good news that ought to be taken with a pinch of salt given how the current administration responds to unfavorable BLS data - > On Friday, August 1, [2025] President Trump fired Dr. Erika McEntarfer from her role as the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In social media posts announcing and confirming her firing, he said that he believed the jobs report released by the agency earlier that day included numbers that were “rigged in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.” https://www.epi.org/policywatch/firing-bls-commissioner-erika-mcentarfer/ https://www.epi.org/policywatch/firing-bls-commissioner-erik...
- thombat 19d agoThe first series of "Blackadder" has a vignette of such reportage: Messenger 3: My Lord, news… King: What? Messenger 3: Lord Wessex is dead. King: This news is not so good. Messenger 3: Pardon, My Lord? King: I like it not. Bring me some other news. Messenger 3: Pardon, My Lord? King: I LIKE NOT THIS NEWS! BRING ME SOME OTHER NEWS!!! Messenger 3: Yes, My Lord! (Messenger 3 leaves; King tosses things around angrily; Messenger 4 enters — actually just Messenger 3 pretending to be a new messenger delivering new news.) Messenger 4: My Lord, news… King: What? Messenger 4: Lord Wessex is not dead. King: Ah, good news! Let there be joy and celebration; let jubilation reign!
- ericmay 19d agoWasn’t she only in that job for a year? Maybe she was doing a bad job. The current head of the BLS seems well qualified. Here are some select quotes from a NYT article [1]: “Erica Groshen, who was commissioner during the Obama administration, also praised the selection. “He’s a B.L.S.-er, he’s a data nerd,” she said.” “The firing, and Mr. Antoni’s subsequent nomination, raised concerns that Mr. Trump would seek to interfere in the agency’s operations and perhaps try to skew its estimates to his political advantage. “ “There is no evidence that has happened so far. The agency has been run since August by William Wiatrowski, its longtime deputy commissioner, who also led the bureau on an interim basis under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Economists continue to view the numbers the agency produces as reliable.” Now these comments were written back in January of this year. Can you cite any specific examples of wrongdoing? Or inaccurate numbers or figures outside of normal revisions? When I see bad numbers from the BLS I say yes that’s probably true. When I see good numbers from the BLS I say yes that’s probably true. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/business/trump-bureau-of-labor-statistics-brett-matsumoto.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/business/trump-bureau-of-...
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- flypunk 19d agohttps://archive.md/5hi5i https://archive.md/5hi5i
- inquist 19d ago> AI startups are hiring like there is no tomorrow. This is not reassuring
- mcphage 19d agoYeah. It’s like well, that would be great if there was no tomorrow, but the thing about tomorrow is that it always famously comes.
- rayiner 19d agoI hope this results in a rebalancing of the social and economic power of high-IQ versus average-IQ workers. We will need construction workers and tradespeople to build and maintain these AI data centers. Probably even with robots. But we won’t need as many engineers, lawyers, and other people whose job it is to consume and generate bits. If we tax the proceeds of AI generated productivity sufficiently, this could be the beginning of returning to the dynamics of the 1940s-1960s, where economic power was more concentrated among skilled blue collar workers than it is now.
- HumblyTossed 19d ago> If we tax the proceeds of AI generated productivity sufficiently That's not going to happen.
- WeMustSaveEarth 19d agoWhat about like a PNG tax for transparent pixels? Transparent pixels harm the environment because they use energy and don't even do anything
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- polotics 19d agoAre you serious about this imbalance? it's the seriously rich that have taken all of the spoils, that's where the massive imbalance is. I'm not disagreeing that some manual work require forms of intelligence that are undervalued in our society, and don't get me started about nurses, but still: What the Jeff Bezos!
- rayiner 19d ago> it's the seriously rich that have taken all of the spoils, that's where the massive imbalance is. It depends on how you define “spoils.” People define it to include notional paper wealth, and I think that doesn’t reflect the actual mechanics of economic imbalance. On paper, NVIDIA’s shareholders have increased their wealth by $4.8 trillion in five years, enough to buy all the residential real estate in New York City and LA combined. But $5 trillion in notional AI wealth isn’t actually the same as owning NYC and LA. The paper wealth doesn’t affect the average person meaningfully until someone actually buys something with it. Given that, it’s more useful to define “spoils” in terms of finite goods and services and look at spending on those goods and services. That is what directly affects the average person—it’s what makes housing or education or Disney tickets or whatever harder to access. And on that front, the income growth of the top 10% has had a much more significant impact on the average person. The top 10% accounts for half of consumer spending today, up from 35% in the 1990s. And that spending is coming from the upper middle class, not billionaires. Bezos might be worth a million times more than the average person, but he’s not buying a million times more housing or Disney tickets or hotel rooms. Instead, the average person is competing directly with the increasingly affluent top 10% for access to those finite resources.
- windward 19d agoWhile I'm still catastrophically worried about what AI means for my career, I've noticed that my current employer - very AI forward, and growing the team - is still facing an ever expanding backlog. High productivity is generally good for the employee, unless you're productive enough you run out of work to do. So how much code is needed?
- pram 19d agoYes I’ve seen very little change over the past 3 years in my role (platform engineering) except mostly JIRA tickets are more unreadable because people just have Claude vomit a novel into it. I mean I use it every day of course, but the velocity of work doesn’t really seem to be budging lol. And frankly a lot of time wasted on AI made gadgets, and meetings about those gadgets (look at this dashboard Claude made! etc)
- polotics 19d agoSo much of this yes, colleagues who think doing AI work is asking Claude to, as you so eloquently wrote "vomit a novel", and allow themselves to disengage their brains. The joke is at the level of developers, the constant sharpening of AI merge-requests reviewing (sometimes too much) has made the new job of AI speedriding & reviewsfighting a serious brain squeeze. The value of conscienciousness has skyrocketed, and the value of openness is still the same as it ever was.
- baal80spam 19d ago> Claude vomit Stealing this, will use instead of AI slop!
- treis 19d agoIt absolutely has for me. Hours/days out of a month of smashing my head against silly bugs or SQL syntax errors have gone away. I will agree that some of the savings has been eaten up elsewhere. Lots of trivial but not wrong PR comments ther lead to churn as an example.
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- dist-epoch 19d agoAI boosters: "look, AI is creating jobs, all of these doomers scaring you with job loses, don't listen to them" also AI boosters: "we are going to build a million robots, and the robots will build factories producing robots, there will be infinite abundance, nobody will need to work anymore"
- HumblyTossed 19d ago> there will be infinite abundance Maybe. > nobody will need to work anymore If we define "nobody" as very wealthy people who partake in that abundance while everyone else ... goes away.
- visarga 19d agoWhen AI gets that good, a solar panel can power a pile of motors and gears to move and do work for you that previously required humans. You won't need the job, you need to solve your necessities more directly. And that job is a good fit for the AI that was so good it put you out of a job.
- HumblyTossed 19d agoSo... robots build shit that the wealthy who own the robots can profit from it and I need to ... what? ... go grow my own potatoes if I want to live? Okay...
- visarga 17d agoOwn your robot, it will cost less than a car.
- jryle70 19d agoFirst of all, cite them. Second of all, on which time scale, are they both talking about the near, mid or long terms?
- vanuatu 18d agounironically the second scenario sounds better
- DubiousPusher 19d agoI've spent 10 years implementing new technology into businesses from all over the world and the thing that has killed the most projects at the proof of concept phase has not been whether it works. It's whether the cost of going to production from PoC produces a significant ROI. AI is absolutely changing the economics there. Humans were simply nowhere near answering all the useful questions they had which software could answer. The problem was that software was expensive. Now, software is cheaper and so people who couldn't afford to answer questions they've long wondered about can afford to answer them.
- HumblyTossed 19d ago> Now, software is cheaper and so people who couldn't afford to answer questions they've long wondered about can afford to answer them. Temporarily. Token price will rise sharply when the bills finally come due.
- Havoc 19d agoNo longer convinced that’s true. Some of the indebted providers might go under but there is nothing preventing someone from just setting up a new provider and serving tokens debt free. GLM or whatever. That provides continuous downward pressure on token prices even if it isn’t Astra level
- scott_weber 18d agoAgree model providers can't take much margin, a few percent plus maybe a bit extra from those willing to pay for a "better" model. Upstream is more concentrated: TSMC, NVIDIA, AMD could maybe raise prices and capture more of the value, which would affect open model providers.
- jvwww 19d agoDo you have any evidence to suggest that this true? And if so, why can't I just use any of the very good open source Chinese models (and eventually American once reflection, thinking machines, etc catch up).
- alanmoraes 19d ago> The Economist estimates that AI has so far created around 1m new jobs in America. That easily exceeds the roughly 200,000 lay-offs attributed to AI since mid-2023, and appears more than enough to offset weaker hiring in many back-office roles. America’s AI infrastructure splurge has created many of them. (...) That building spree requires armies of workers: electricians to wire them, HVAC specialists to stop racks from overheating, grid engineers to hook them up to the power supply and technicians to install and maintain the machines. I'm not sure whether the salaries of the new jobs are on par with those of the lost jobs.
- binary132 19d ago“One million high-paying upper-middle class family supporting jobs were destroyed, but on the bright side, one million minimum-wage Walmart greeter jobs were created! See? We’re breaking even!”
- rayiner 19d agoBuilding and maintaining data centers aren’t minimum wage jobs. They are the best kind of jobs: accessible to somewhat above average people across a broad range of backgrounds. (As opposed to upper middle class knowledge worker jobs that are only accessible to the cognitive top 10%.)
- binary132 19d agoyes my comment was a satire of your thinking here, not an actual representation of reality
- burpingtree 19d agoI understand building data centers, but what does maintaining data centers entail? Are those going to be high paying jobs and how many of them. I don’t know much about the area but it seems like they would be low wage and not very many needed once the data centers are built.
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- Muromec 19d agoSo the lore of capitalism was on point this time -- whenever one market closes, resources (you) are freed to form a new market.
- elmer2 19d agoI'm a consultant and I've already worked for multiple AI companies that shut down over the last two years. I think the main problem is that they all are relying on the big token providers and trying to capture value with various services. At some point the token costs will increase so much, it will put all of these AI companies out of business. Don't get me wrong. AI is definitely useful. The high costs are currently being subsidized by VC and other investors and unless there is a major breakthrough, it's just not going to work in the long-term.
- cube00 19d agoNot to mention if you make a successful value add the token provider will add it to their own harness and they're not paying the retail price they charge you for the tokens they consume.
- armanckeser 19d agoWhy assume token costs will increase as opposed to become commoditized?
- pj_mukh 19d agoThere seems to be a weird self-fulfilling narrative here: 1) "AI companies will go bust because tokens will cost too much" >> 2) "Don't let them build data centers that will sit empty" >> 3) Demand outstrips supply by a lot >> 4) Token costs too much. This is no different from the NIMBY's that block all the housing then sit in a huff saying "see! everyone's leaving. good thing we didn't build anything!" when the rents go up.
- sensanaty 18d agoTalk about a goomba fallacy. The people who are against the data center buildups (which is increasingly becoming a bipartisan issue the world over thanks to the antics of the AI psychos) are not the same people complaining about token prices. I'm sure many of them would even be gleeful if the AI companies went belly up
- Madmallard 19d agoInteresting how we got frank propaganda on the front page now. Pretty sad. There are no jobs. Not real jobs.
- binary132 19d agoBlatant propaganda is not an effective remedy to the severe public anti-AI sentiment, sorry.
- NotRedFox 19d agoAI boom for jobs has always been here. Companies want to be on top of this stuff more then ever. Especially if they can replace more workers with it.
- billsmithaustin 19d agoDoes anyone here question the integrity of the US government’s jobs report two months away from a mid-term election?
- disgruntledphd2 19d agoNot really. We'd see a lot of resignations if the numbers were being fudged. Statisticians, as a rule, take a dim view of falsifying data.
- lovich 18d agoWe didn’t need to see resignations because they were fired when the numbers weren’t good, in his opinion, previously.[1] I get that the king does multiple things per day that used to be admin ending but we shouldn’t forget his machinations that are related to the topic at hand. The data probably isn’t 100% false but it also definitely as trustworthy as it was a year and a half ago. [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/trump-fired-bls-chief-over-110000985.html https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/trump-fired-bls-c...
- disgruntledphd2 18d ago> We didn’t need to see resignations because they were fired when the numbers weren’t good, in his opinion, previously.[1] I mean no disrespect, but I have been following this story, as I am very interested in the quality of official statistics. He did fire the BLS head, then tried to appoint a toady, but basically the big IB and investors threw a fit (along with some Senators) and it didn't happen. So I regard most of the weirdness in these numbers since Covid as an artifact of the seasonality models breaking down, rather than some nefarious actions.
- Mountain_Skies 18d agoYes, but if you haven't been questioning them for the past couple of decades, you haven't been paying attention.
- mbgerring 19d agoI was laid off as a senior product manager in December of 2025. I’ve been looking for a new job in clean energy (which is supposedly “having a moment” due to data centers) since then. There is no “jobs boom”. There are certainly job openings — black holes into which you can lodge your resume. Occasionally, multiple rounds of interviews that go nowhere. I’ve been paying my bills as an art fabricator and live event electrician, the kinds of blue collar jobs that are supposed to make up for the destruction of “knowledge work”. The work is inconsistent, and the pay is less than half of what I made before. There is no “jobs boom”, of any kind.
- ulfw 18d agoThere are no job openings. The ones you see are fake. I've applied to the same FAANG opening in Sydney 3x over the last 1.5 years. It's not a real job as apparently they're not eager to fill it for years.
- briga 18d agoI don't think this is entirely true: let's just say the jobs boom is unevenly distributed. There are definitely more openings than there were a year ago, but it is also now much more of a challenge to effectively market yourself as a person in tech. On the one hand there is the problem that every job posting is flooded with hundreds of bogus AI resumes which, if they are not outright fabrications, stretch the truth enough to make it hard to tell who is qualified and who is not. Anecdotally, it seems to me like directly applying to jobs is a waste. You either have to find some way to attract recruiter outreach, or network with people who can get you a foot in the door.
- gib444 18d ago> There are certainly job openings — black holes into which you can lodge your resume And recruiters are just flat out creating fake job listings on Indeed, with no pretense, describing them as "an opportunity to register your interest in similar roles", and Indeed are allowing it.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 19d ago"AI startups are hiring like there's no tomorrow." For AI startups there eventually may be no tomorrow How many of these startups are profitable Perhaps the greatest "AI"-related job losses will be failed "AI" startups More BS "jobs" created from throwaway investment capital instead of business success
- dgellow 18d agoAlso, anyone can take a frontier model, point it at your AI startup website/app, and replicate what makes it unique in a fraction of the time it has taken the original implementers. There is nothing magical about most companies, you cannot replicate Apple but any SaaS can be cloned quite well with a bit of time. Unless you have a really unique niche with high entry cost, or a really unique dataset, or something else that really differentiate you from all the competitors, you will find that your space gets crowded very quickly
- BatchJob 19d agoBut what happens when the exec level managers are done with all these AI training sessions and rollouts and realize nothing has improved? What about the loss of productivity of developers who are forced to entertain tons of noise about AI and take training and attend sessions which do not increase their productivity and instead takes time away from real work? Are employers running a software shop or a church?
- visarga 19d agoThey can't afford to miss out or be seen as missing out. It's not rational, yet it is in a way.
- zx8080 18d agoThe Church of Chief Executives.
- sensanaty 18d agoAI is a religion that promises CEOs, VCs and other various assorted sociopaths the promised land of not having to pay for the most expensive part of any business, its workers. They will do anything and everything in their power to reach this promised land, regardless of the cost to themselves, to their businesses or to society at large. It is entirely irrelevant to them how useful LLM tech is. It doesn't matter that productivity is the same as it ever was just with a 10-fold increase in costs due to token-maxxing behaviour. They don't care if their software is buggier than ever, or their workers unhappier than ever, because AI promises to replace them anyways
- dgellow 18d agoWhat happened when they all pushed cryptocurrency and nothing actually came for it? Nothing. They just stop talking about it, quietly shutdown their revolutionary services. What happened when they all pushed for metaverse things? Nothing. Shutdown quietly, move to the next big trend you’re not allowed to ignore. That’s it. That’s the pattern. Here some companies will get a bit of value, most won’t. Though the job of software engineer has been transformed that’s the main real impact. But companies who didn’t get much value from all their AI projects will shut them down quietly, and LLMs will just became another tool in the standard company toolbox. Until a new trend comes along
- Hydraulix989 19d agoI would argue that AI tooling does not have a moat and would be subsumed by the Big Two labs themselves, but then Cursor happened.
- xlayn 18d agoNo they are not, try to change jobs and if you can't or takes a really long time you know this is some of the finest baloney. And no, it's not creating a lot of jobs, one one of the kind that will be destroyed by AI no, and that's the point... you built something that removes the pricey laywer, software developer, insurance policy writer, designer, etc... and replace it with a ONE TIME go work under the sun with no ac in the middle of nowhere as a contractor of the contractor of the contractor... So sure, I'm a dooms-scroll-lover, sure the 10000000 new part time possitions with no benefit of any kind will be the biggest work boom EVER... you will just go to compete with all the other people already doing that... and you know what happens when there is a queue of 100 to flip burgers or "highly technical non AI replaceable work like weld or electricist" right??
- lovich 18d agoAI has completely broken interviewing as well. The asks I am getting in the few interviews I can achieve are schizophrenic. They have pretty uniformly wanted me to demonstrate using AI but then freak out and interrogate me for every prompt and then want me to demonstrate I can do the task by hand. And that’s only after getting through the AI run filtering that gives a different score everytime your unchanged resume is run through the model. It’s dark times for employment currently unless you’ve got a rare nepotism path.
- bheadmaster 18d ago> It’s dark times for employment currently unless you’ve got a rare nepotism path. In the civilized society, we call that "recommendation".
- ofjcihen 18d agoI don’t know if those companies are doing it for the right reasons but I’ve implemented a policy of showing me that you can do the job manually as well. The reason being that if you can’t then you probably can’t tell when the AI is wrong. My company is strictly Cybersecurity/IR though so that may vary with other specialties.
- ulfw 18d agoThis is the biggest bullshit lie ever I haven't had a job in 4 years. Well okay I am an old piece of shit of 49 yrs old with a Stanford degree. So obsolete for this new AI world of imaginary bullshits. So I deserve it
- vanuatu 18d agoI think this is Jevon's paradox playing out in full force, and I'm quite confident we'll continue to see the growth in well paid STEM jobs despite the anecdata in this thread (anecdotally my group of ICs on tech have all seen our comp grow a lot in the last few years) Until we saturate the demand for software which may very well be infinite
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- mancerayder 18d agoI'm very senior and in a HCOL, relatively booming city. It's never been so hard to find a job despite never being so qualified. I can code, run infra, scale startups, do hands on, manage, present, I can do anything. But that's not what they are looking for. Dozens and dozens of my applications are rejected, with no first screens. The same resume, just with a few less years experience at the same place, just a few years ago got recruiter pings. It's insane and I'm very worried about the future of our jobs. I also don't think AI is legitimately replacing people, as at work people are producing terrible slop and having my team review it. That's not less work, that's more work. Has Idiocracy reached our industry?
- wand3r 18d agoThe jobs numbers have been terrible and revised down. Huge amounts of people have dropped out if the workforce or are employed in multiple part times or struggling seriously in a single full time. I saw an article here about the job market for writers. I can't recall, but I think it was a blog post saying like "AI is bad and has annoying prose so GOOD writers will thrive". The comments rightfully pointed out that not everything requires good writing and many companies will "buy" writing for llm prices as good enough to save money. I bring it up because that is where someone simply articulated the obvious point I hadn't really thought through: the cascade. What happens when millions of copywriters, non famous journalist, average graphic designers, etc. get laid off. Millions of people will drive the price of labor WAY down as this wage bubble wanders through industries popping every few months. If the supply if labor becomes massive, we will have this debt spiral or stagflationary labor market that causes chaos. Ultimately, capital owners accrue the most value and can buy tons of assets for cheap. Unless, it turns out a middle classes consumption is like...important for our country to function.
- gib444 18d agoThe Economist is just a pro-capitalist shill
- polyterative 18d agoIn my company several(40/200) people have are in the process of getting fired with the explanation that AI will help to fill in. I'm not convinced.